Blepharoplasty is a procedure to remove skin--usually along with excess fat and muscle from the upper and lower eyelids. Eyelid surgery can correct drooping upper lids and puffy bags below your eyes - features that make you look older and more tired than you feel, and may even interfere with your vision. However, it won't remove crow's feet or other wrinkles, eliminate dark circles under your eyes, or lift sagging eyebrows.  Blepharoplasty can be done alone, or in conjunction with other facial surgery procedures such as a facelift or browlift.

Blepharoplasty usually takes one to two hours, depending on the extent of the surgery. In a typical procedure, Dr. Zamora makes incisions following the natural lines of your eyelids; in the creases of your upper lids, and just below the lashes in the lower lids. The incisions may extend into the crow's feet or laugh lines at the outer corners of your eyes. Working through these incisions, the surgeon separates the skin from underlying fatty tissue and muscle, removes excess fat, and often trims sagging skin and muscle. The incisions are then closed with very fine dissolvable suture.

If you have a pocket of fat beneath your lower eyelids but don't need to have any skin removed, Dr. Zamora may perform a transconjunctival blepharoplasty. In this procedure the incision is made inside your lower eyelid, requiring no sutures and leaving no visible scar. It is usually performed on younger patients with thicker, more elastic skin. Contact Centennial Cosmetic Surgery Center to schedule a complimentary cosmetic consultation.